TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Simple ball game

6 Stone pillar

11 Racehorse

14 Luau greeting

15 Promotion basis

16 Rocky Mountain tribe

17 Asp

18 One-moon planet

19 Director —

Howard

20 Swindles

22 Walkway

24 Seattle, for one

28 Brats’ opposites

29 Movie set fixture

30 Black bird

32 Two fives for — —

33 Waiting line

35 Not sunny-side up

39 “Cathy’s Clown” singer

40 Paramedic’s skill

41 Coating of frost

42 Author — Lebowitz

43 Urgent appeals

45 Cuzco founder

46 Reef maker

48 Lobster part

50 Donut stop

53 Stretchy cords

54 Divert

55 Hotel staffers

57 Consumer protection org.

58 Pumpkin kin

60 Brownish color

65 Conger

66 Kukla’s pal

67 Lasso

68 Tijuana “Mrs.”

69 Has to have

70 Legislate

DOWN

1 Mav’s foe

2 Cassius Clay

3 Outperform

4 Ernesto Guevara

5 Place of refuge

6 Make steel from iron

7 Veneer wood

8 Slips up

9 Afire

10 Flammable gas

11 Doctor’s assistant

12 Lagoon boundary

13 Trait determinants

21 Kuwait neighbor

23 Snubbing

24 Throat warmer

25 Food consumer

26 Invisible swimmer (var.)

27 Acts of contrition

28 Forum hello

30 Force back

31 Distinctive air

34 NCAA Bruins

36 Lombardi or Edwards

37 Speaker introducer

38 Brings up

43 Force open

44 Future fries

47 Beaver State

49 Take out a policy

50 Naive ones

51 Fossil resin

52 “In Xanadu did — Khan ...”

53 Sticks around

55 Stubborn sort

56 Bone-dry

59 Fiesta shout

61 Max opposite

62 Sheep call

63 List ender, briefly

64 Long-tailed rodent